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« on: October 15, 2013, 06:30AM » |
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Du you love to read? Welcome here!
This thread is about everything printed on paper. What do you read? How do you read?
I love books with an athmosphere and a unique writing style. My favourite genres are Fantasy, Classics, History, everything victorian, theological books, sometimes science fiction and also some other books! I don't like real life stories (also known as "problem books", you know about teenagers that use drugs, etc.) and too... well... for me unfeeling books. I love to live in books!
I love reading on "bad weather days" in a fleece blanket, with a cup of tea or (vegan) hot chocolate) or a glass of wine. Or maybe a cup of veggie soup. And I love real, printed books. I don't have an eReader. I'm totally a bookworm and I love the full reading experience, not just taking the storyline and nothing else.
How about you?
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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2013, 06:07PM » |
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I read more when I was younger, but my faves were fantasy (usually Piers Anthony ) and sci/fi ....especially books based on the various Star Trek series. i got into Dean Koontz for awhile too..great suspense writer. I usually read in small chunks at a time.
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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2013, 06:18PM » |
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I used to read constantly, but after grad school, I kind of got burned out on it. When you read 12-20 books a semester (200-1000 pages each) for 3 years, you kind of burn out.
I still read history books when I find one of interest like the one on Ireland I keep trying to finish, but never find a lot of time to sit down and read it. When I was younger, I'd always take a Star Trek book with me on family vacations and read it before getting home. When we flew to Hawaii in 93 and 94, I'd read an entire Star Trek book on the flights there and another on the flights home.
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2013, 07:21PM » |
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I love this thread... Simply because of the name!! I love reading- I prefer a real book, there's just something about holding a book that makes me feel happy, and the smell of a book!  I do have a kindle app on my iPad, but rarely use it. I can see how e-readers can entice younger people to read, because well, it's technology really. Hand them a real book, and they'd probably tell you it's more boring. I read almost anything, (usually judged by the blurb or first few pages) but seem to prefer those biography type stories, of adults telling their childhood stories (which usually aren't to pleasant) fiction/chick-lit & SOME crime novels... Any books that really let your FEEL what each character feels, and let you live that story. Losing yourself in a book is the best thing ever  I love reading at any time, but especially on the colder nights, when your inside warm and cosy curled up with a good book, with the window howling outside the window (more typically raining beating down in Ireland tho!) When I was in school, I would be in the library every other day for books, and used to sit up all night or quite late into the night, totally lost in a book! Now I'm working I do it less, but still love to take time out & leave everything behind for a good read! |
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2013, 04:04AM » |
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Thank you three for responsing on this thread! I love to read what people think about reading^^ And Kirstie: I agree completely about the real-book-thing!
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2013, 05:33AM » |
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Your very welcome I really think real books are the best thing, :-) |
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2013, 07:08AM » |
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Thank you<3
I love real books aswell! And I love having a real reading experience. With a hot drink (tea, chocolate, spiced wine, maybe even coffe), a blanket, "bad weather", candles, music...
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2013, 12:15PM » |
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Thank you<3
I love real books aswell! And I love having a real reading experience. With a hot drink (tea, chocolate, spiced wine, maybe even coffe), a blanket, "bad weather", candles, music...
Bad weather is prefect for reading! |
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2013, 12:21PM » |
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It is. But I think it's also nice for reading outside. Exept for rain, makes the book wet.  |
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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2013, 12:35PM » |
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That's when an e-reader would be handy!
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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2013, 12:51PM » |
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Exept when the water ruins the tech...
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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2013, 01:18PM » |
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Oh yeah! Forgot about that whoops!
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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2013, 02:06PM » |
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Audio books come in handy in the rain.
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2013, 04:35AM » |
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Yeah, good idea! The problem is just, that I can hardly concentrate on them :/
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2013, 05:01PM » |
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How about discuss books we've read and would recommend to others?
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